Life on fifth Podcast - Coliving & Community life

What a joy to record an episode with Fabienne & Benoit. First off, I don't know how they do it but they practically never cut each other when speaking, they somehow magical know when the other is done. It was a pleasure to listen to their stories. And they have many! They've traveled so much, met so many people, they were Digital Nomads before it was hype, and before they even knew it...

I'm not the one to claim the benefit of social media but I will admit this time around it is Instagram that brought Lisa and me together. Well, Insta and a common friend. We quickly connected through what seemed to be a never-ending list of shared interests. Lisa in her own words: I just turned 27 years and was born and raised in Berlin to parents from East Berlin. I left the city several time...

A few weeks back I had a lovely conversation with one of the amazing girls of the Chateau Coliving team. But Jeanne does much more than that! Jeanne in her own words: I’m Jeanne, from France. I split my time between travels and Château coliving where I work as a community facilitator as well as freelancing in event management. I chase meaningful conversations, laughs, new experiences, and good foo...

*Apologise for the background noises on this episode, it's worth pushing through as Christy's passion is contagious. Christy in her own words: I am the creator of To Hani Coliving: A rural coliving in a restored historic building based in Cyprus. To Hani is the first coliving space for digital nomads on the island. Back in 2017, I had the opportunity to live and work in many corners of the...

Ana in her own words: I define myself as a connector who is passionate about nature and ‘all living beings’. I’m passionate about creating networks and communities that collaborate and deeply believe that a just, interconnected, and regenerative world is possible. In 2018 I stopped joining different sustainable projects around the world: an organic farm in Tasmania, an ecovillage in Vancouver Isla...

I met Anja through 2 online communities we are both part of: Coliving Hub, an association sharing knowledge around coliving spaces for Digital Nomads, and Nomad Haven , a Nomad Female Entrepreneur online community. We quickly realized we shared similar interests and values... bringing people together under one roof being one of them. I got lucky and was asked to interview Anja as part of my work f...

Zoē & Yello are a couple of lovely people interested in personal development, music, and community living. Self-confessed as going through a mid-life crisis/awakening, they're in the process of re-aligning work life with their passions, and living arrangements with their core values. They've just had their first experience of co-living at Selgars, and are interested in co-housing for t...

Meet Sole, in her own words:  Hi, I'm Sole a digital nomad from Spain. I've lived in various colivings around the world and noticed the need for a platform that makes it easier for colivers to connect and find new nomad colivings. That's why Ramon and I created Mapmelon , an app that helps people find and connect with colivings community that fit their interests. With Sole we spoke abo...

It has been a long break this winter. Longer than intended. I had a good excuse though. I led my very own pop-up coliving for 2,5 months in the British countryside with my partner, at www.selgars.org It was unexpected and challenging. But it was also amazing. Now that things have calmed down a bit, I am back behind the mic with more testimonials from people like Pablo, who believe in the power of...

This is an episode recorded a month or so ago with Alex Chau, another K9er. Alex was born in Melbourne about 33 years ago, he moved to Sweden about 7 years ago and has been at K9 for the last 3 of those. Alex and I share a lot of similarities in our Swedish and coliving journey: we both came to this country for our partners, both separated on the way, moved into K9 and found something we did not r...

A slightly special episode this week which was not planed but fits perfectly. Anton and I met in 2017 in K9 Coliving and are now married and living in London with our dog Zuko. It's safe to say coliving has impacted both our personal and professional lives tremendously. In this episode Anton takes us from his K9 experience all the way to our brand new and exciting project: Selgars. A place for ret...

August 2022 was supposed to be a month without any travel. Life is what happens when you are busy making plans. Suddenly I found myself in Belgium, in this wonderfully magical eco-village called L'Arbre Qui Pousse (the growing tree), taking part in the first Hopestation of La Matrice, Multiversity Campus for Hope and Regeneration. A project within a project within a project born out of the dream,...

Episode 2 is my conversation with Denisa, a UX Designer originally from Prague, working for a crypto startup. She is a digital nomad and outdoor sports lover.  We e-met through Swiss Escape coliving, one of my clients, where she stayed earlier this year. It took us a while to organize the recording but we finally managed to find the time in the summer, just when I was visiting Swiss Escape my...

We are finally back! After a much longer break than planned (because life happens) we are back with the first episode of Season 3. We start with Jho again. Jho was my very first guest on the podcast back in August 2020, when we agreed to be my guinea pig for the idea I had to talk about community and record it somehow. Two years later Jho moved out of K9 where we first met and now lives in Switzer...

Ending with a bang. This is what we said when we realised this episode would be the last of the second season. Mo interviewing Moh felt like a good closing of the circle. In his own words Moh used to be half Moroccan, half Egyptian, but now he added Swedish to the list. His favorite hobby is seeking and trying new technologies. He enjoys sci-fi and lately he's also been into philosophy. All the wh...

This week I am happy to finally be sharing my face to face conversation with Marta. We met back in May when we both got invited to the pop up opening month of beautiful Burgas Coliving in Bulgaria. I opened up about my podcast project and Marta volunteered :-) I am so glad she did because her story is worth sharing! It is an inspiration for anyone looking to start their digital nomad journey on th...

Elspeth is a storyteller, food fanatic, and avid traveller. She loves learning about the people behind the places she visits, about the details that make up a community. She works full-time as a Marketing Manager in the travel industry, but her passion is her side hustle where she writes for brands and entrepreneurs she is passionate about. I "e-met" Elspeth when she first came to Swiss Escape thi...

Gianluca is the founder of AI Academy, a company specialized in Artificial Intelligence education without code. He is the current chairperson of Nest, a non profit coliving space in Copenhagen. After traveling from Italy to Belgium where he discovered entrepreuneurship and then to the US for his studies, Gianluca came back wanting to recreate that feeling he had built there, a sense of community w...

I am really glad to finally be sharing my conversation with Agustin who I had the pleasure to meet in person during our Creative week in Romania for the pre-opening of Cobana Coliving in March. After more than 7 years of being a location independent worker, Agustin decided to start a coliving space in Galicia, the region where he is from.   That is how Anceu coliving was born. From the s...

I met Maddie when I went back to K9 almost 2 years after moving out to London. We were both waiting for the coffee to brew in the first floor kitchen. I introduced myself and someone immediately talked about recording an episode. We didn't get around doing it face to face that week but eventually managed to book a time online. There is something quite surreal and magical about having someone tell...

Finally, a long chat with Philip who has been living in the pods at K9 for a while now, pods the podcast are actually name after. I guess you could say Philip is one of the Original Humans! Philip is a resident at K9 co-living in Stockholm and a person so curious and passionate about human connection and relationships that he started his own company to design and develop tools that help us humans...

Yes, another K9er on the podcast. As long as K9 lives I will make it my mission to talk with as many residents as possible. Each story is similar and different at the same time and I always leave the conversation with new things to reflect on. Abhi moved in a bit after me and we've grown to become close friends, despite what he might say. We have debated K9 more times than I can remember, in our r...

A few weeks ago I was connected through a common friend with Hugo, the co-founder of Vine 21, a co-living and coworking space, located in the hearth of Bucharest. We exchanged a few messages and jumped on a call. Half way through we realised we were both born in Paris...we had been speaking english until then. Sharing a good laugh is a great way to bring people together, especially when you are la...

Yoav and I could have gone one for a few hours. We tried to combined it under an hour but our passion for community living and the meaning of Home is one of the many things we seem to share. We've never lived under the same roof and yet, we feel like we belong to the same tribe. That's coliving done well for you. Yoav is a never ending source of knowledge and inspiration when it comes to community...

The second episode of 2022 is with Lies who is the concept creator of Coaliving, a beautiful short and long term coliving space in Belgium. Chatting with Lies was an absolute pleasure and felt like being back in my own community, around the kitchen table, discussing the pros and cons of shared living. Coaliving was design in an old building that used to be the home away from home of immigrants coa...